News
In the public sphere: Claudio Lomnitz publishes, "Mexico: Anatomy of a Mass Murder" in the NYRB.
It's been an extraordinarily productive year for Columbia anthropologists, who have published several pathbreaking new books. From a rethinking of human-animal relations, to the moral philosophy of reparation after slavery, and from the role of gender violence in feminism and geopolitics to a new theory of the state in contemporary Mexico, with a meditation on language and ethics in deaf Nepal, our colleagues keep pushing the boundaries of the discipline.
Hannah Chazin published Live Stock and Dead Things: The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity' with the University…
Congratulations to E. Mara Green who published "Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal".
Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material…
Professors Zoë Crossland, Samuel F. Sanchez, Josie Volaravo Dominique, Kristina Guild Douglass were awarded a grant under the Alliance Trilateral Initiatives in Emerging Regions (TIER) Program for their project “Madagascar in the World: Inheritances and Uncertain Futures”.
Congratulations to Eben Hess, this year's recipient for departmental honors for the academic year of 2024.
Congratulations to Victor Meric, this year's recipient of the Dean’s Prize in Anthropology. The Dean's Prize in Anthropology is awarded annually to a General Studies student who has shown excellence in the study of anthropology.
Congratulations to Emmanuel Wondimu, this year's recipient of the Dean’s Prize in Anthropology. The Dean's Prize in Anthropology is awarded annually to a General Studies student who has shown excellence in the study of anthropology.
Anthropology doctoral student Chazelle Rhoden, has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant! Congratulations Chazelle!
Anthropology doctoral student Amanda Althoff, has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant! Congratulations Amanda!
Paige West and her colleague John Aini delivered the Better Tomorrow Lecture at the University of Hawai'i in March. Link to the lecture, can be found by clicking on this link.
PhD candidate Aamer Ibraheem will join the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the 2024-2025 Paloheimo Foundation Predoctoral Fellow. This is a nine-month residential fellowship for scholars working in the humanities and social sciences, during which he will finish writing his doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled "Present Interruptus: Sovereignty's Reincarnation in the Golan Heights".
Anthropology doctoral student Jorge Alejandro Rodriguez Solorzano has been awarded a grant from the Office of the Provost for his project "Documenting and Examining Electoral Violence in Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico: A Collaborative Database."
Anthropology doctoral student Paulina Gomez has been awarded a grant from the Office of the Provost for her project "Ordinary Indigeneities: Taíno Resurgence, Land Relations, and Embodied Sovereignties in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico"